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honesty and one of the union says elected officials from both parties need to listen to the will of the voters and focus on rebuilding the middle class and strengthening our economy by investing in jobs, not cu. as for the effectiveness of this campai one conservative says this type pressure from unio is nothing new. >> the fact that they are publicly sayinghat they have been privately saying helps the american people understand where obama's in trend and comes from but nothing has changed. >> the issue is in the fiscal cliff discussion democrats appear willing to put entitlements and spending on the table. republicans saying they're willing to do tax revenue and that could be or would be the key to any agreement to avoi the fiscal cliff and get the country's books back in order. gerri: you will be covering this for a long time. thanks for that. this black friday wal-mart shoppers think protests, it is not a superstore workers on the picket line. jeff flock joins us with more. jeff: a few of them but the majority were not wal-mart workers but members of other unions like the teamsters,
honesty and one of the union says elected officials from both parties need to listen to the will of the voters and focus on rebuilding the middle class and strengthening our economy by investing in jobs, not cu. as for the effectiveness of this campai one conservative says this type pressure from unio is nothing new. >> the fact that they are publicly sayinghat they have been privately saying helps the american people understand where obama's in trend and comes from but nothing has...
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beyond june 38 because there is no election next year. gerri: college tax credit, any change? >> well, the american opportunity tax credit will expire at the end of 2012 if it is not extended we refer to the hope scholarship tax credit which means from $2,500 a year to 1800, maybe $1,900 a year and only two years to four. gerri: thank you for coming on. an absolute pleasure to have you. this is something that no one thought about what the fiscal cliff. so worried about other stuff, taxes, defense dollars. >> thank you for having me. gerri: a warning for online investors. they may have a cute baby spokesperson, but e-trade and others like it may be charging you didn't these. the results of an important new study next. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] they are a glowing example of what it means to be the best. and at this special time of year, they shine even brighter. ce to the winteevent and get the mercedes-benz you've always wished for, now for an exceptional price. [ santa ] ho, ho, ho, ho! [ male announcer lease a 2013 glk350 for $399 a mon
beyond june 38 because there is no election next year. gerri: college tax credit, any change? >> well, the american opportunity tax credit will expire at the end of 2012 if it is not extended we refer to the hope scholarship tax credit which means from $2,500 a year to 1800, maybe $1,900 a year and only two years to four. gerri: thank you for coming on. an absolute pleasure to have you. this is something that no one thought about what the fiscal cliff. so worried about other stuff, taxes,...
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gerri: what about corker and grahm and all these people in washington, elected representatives now saying, you know, i'm rethinking whether there should be a no tax pledge. >> true. that's on the senate side. on the house side, revenue was on the table a long time ago, as in last summer of 2011 and said if we reform the tax code, clear junk deductions out that for the upper brackets, there's more revenue and simplifies the system, and at its best, the tax code is designed to be as simple as possible which is a mess right now, and if you clear that out, people going back to making profit. when i was growing up, profit was a six-letter word, but now it's a four-letter word, and if you make a profit, people want to punish you. gerri: if it was simple, people wouldn't know what to do. >> i do, i understand, but that's the way we get taxes in is that people make more profit, then we have more tax revenue. gerri: what about what bowles had to say in i want you to listen to him. >> okay. >> i'm not encouraged or discouragedded. i'm really worried that we have a real probability we could go over
gerri: what about corker and grahm and all these people in washington, elected representatives now saying, you know, i'm rethinking whether there should be a no tax pledge. >> true. that's on the senate side. on the house side, revenue was on the table a long time ago, as in last summer of 2011 and said if we reform the tax code, clear junk deductions out that for the upper brackets, there's more revenue and simplifies the system, and at its best, the tax code is designed to be as simple...
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cheryl: after the last election, the november election, it was a referendum on many republicans. some of them walked away and said, okay, we did not get the senate back, we are moving forward. our republican candidates did not win the presidency were many officers. >> people were looking round the waist deep in seeing a lot of their friends have lost. barack obama may have won the white house, but e republicans do have the house of representatives. the american public is saying that we should stick to the principal principle message that we have said. washington is running way too much money. there may be differences in want of other issues, t on this one, most americans agree that there's too much waste and fraud and abuse and let's eliminate that. cheryl: where do they fit nto this scenario? fatcat ceos, those from honeywell, allstate, do you think that that is going to be a sitive conversation? will congressional leaders listen? >> i would think that they have been listening to the ceos all along. and even lookng at wall street and main street and they all say the same thing.
cheryl: after the last election, the november election, it was a referendum on many republicans. some of them walked away and said, okay, we did not get the senate back, we are moving forward. our republican candidates did not win the presidency were many officers. >> people were looking round the waist deep in seeing a lot of their friends have lost. barack obama may have won the white house, but e republicans do have the house of representatives. the american public is saying that we...
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and that you think it is an example of the administration misunderstanding the election. it is true that the president of reelected with a very, very powerful tactical victory, but the same people who elected him walked out of the voting booth and said the economy is on the wrong track. this is not an endorsement of their economic policies. the ones that put on the table today are disastrous step in the wrong direction. gerri: you knew former prime minister margaret thatcher very, very well. what would she say? how was she analyze this? >> well, i think she would be in a deeply concerned by the direction of the united states. the u.s. is heading more and more toward sort of european socialist style economy. now, the european social model has been a failure in europe. no reason to believe it will succeed in the united states. and as margaret thatcher pointed out many years ago, the problem with socialist governments is that eventually they run out of other people's money to spend, and that is what is happening here in the united states. a poll came out today showing that 4
and that you think it is an example of the administration misunderstanding the election. it is true that the president of reelected with a very, very powerful tactical victory, but the same people who elected him walked out of the voting booth and said the economy is on the wrong track. this is not an endorsement of their economic policies. the ones that put on the table today are disastrous step in the wrong direction. gerri: you knew former prime minister margaret thatcher very, very well....